Monday, November l5, l97l HUNTINGTON And now - a special salute to CBS · radio station W-W-H-Y - Huntington, West Virginia. W-W-H-Y today celebrating - its twenty-fifth anniversary on the air. UNITED NATIONS At tlte United Nations - a ,..,_ welcome today for tlle new delegation f rom Re 1 China ; with lcart, handshakes all a,-ound - and a steady stream of speakers hailing the impo,-tance of today's event. Not the least of these - U.S. Ambassador George Bush - wlao said, in part : "Tlte differences which divided thi ~ assembly in recent we l'ks - should not obs cure that we all agree that the People's Republic of China should be represented here - so tlaaLwe can move toward peace and justice in the world." ..fL Bush also taking ,,,.,,. 'occasion it to pledge c .:> ntinuing U • S . s up p o r t of th e w or l d b o-d y • Say in . g : " We s ha l l ,,. o t c ea s e to co O p er at e - w i th d ll tho s e h ere w h o f ee l a . , we do . " WHITE HOUSE Tise White House - President Nixon today attended a meeting of his Cost of Living C o u n c i l ~ defend" llis Plaase Two economic program - as exactly right to cut inflatio,, in 1,alf by the end of Nineteen-Seventy-Twoe TIie President adding that Administr · ation strategy calls for "enough contt"ol - to control inflation; but not ao much - as to destroy fYeedom." · At tlae same time, tlte President's Committee on ~ l11tet"est and Dividends~ clamping a four pet" cent limit 011 frllut"e dividend inct"eaaes. Tia is figure - to apply to about te11 tlaousand of the nation's largest corpoyations; based 011 a company's highest payment - ovet" the past three years. !DD VHITI HOU~I And now tbiP.: The Copt of Living Counoil--reverpiD@ an eerlier deoiRion. Ruling that automakerp and other large oo■ paniee--■upt seek per ■ iepion in advance before rai1ing prioeA to offeet wage boo1t1. VIETNAM On the war front - a report today that Saigon troops l&ave launched a major operation - in South Vietnam's Central Higlala11dsKading to some of the fiercest figlttin . g in tit~ A area - in ,nontlts. lndee~tlte toll of enemy dead - is set at ~ more tlaan a ltundred-and-eiglsty. Tlais - we are told -J(an attem/H to tluoart a massive Communist build-up - over the past fe"' week• . . SAN FRANCISCO From a Federal Appeals Court at San Francisco a,e order toda y upholding the right of the U.S . Air Force to discharge a pregnant, unmarried female officer . This in the follow-up to a case - that gained widespread attention last year; that of Captain Susan Struck - who was first ordered discharged and then permitted to stay on, pending appeal. Today's verdict nothing that according to Air Force regulations there is "a compelling public interest - in not having pregaant female soldiers in the military establishment." PALERMO June Eighth - Palermo, Italy - the twenty-eight-year- old so11 of a reputed Mafia leader - kidnaped by gunpoint. Nouember Fifteentlt - Giuseppe Vassallo is finally set free. - Wltal 1ta1>1>ened in tlte interveing Jive month~ still a eo•Pl•t.e mystery, aa far as police are concerned. ~ #o ■ r1r,, lite rumor mill ltas it laat GiuseP/le's Jatlter was forced to pay - in order - - - ~ J -✓ to get ltim back -A..One-t,oint- , ~ix-1t1illion in caslt. If true, tlte ltigli••I ranso,n ever paid for a kidnap victim - in Italy OY NEWARK An official of tlte Fre,ich c · ounter-espionage ser · vice formally charged with drug smuggling to da y. . Tliis i,i "" irulictment-!9!!91•914~&EillE:i•QIIEby a Federal grand jury in NewaTk. Ne• Jer• ey. Colonel Paul Four,aier · - ace using of mas teT- r,airuli•g the illegal importatio11 of niaety-aix pounds of tn,re U.S. Attorney Herbe'r't Ster• late · r aayiMg: "It is 110• u#) to tle Frencla autltorities - whetlaer tlley will fJroceetl agai11st Fournier in Fra,ace - or make him available for prosecution laere. " HEALTH By order of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare - a tentative ban tonight on the use of lead-based points in Federally-financed housing . Noting that an estimated four hundred thousand children mostly in arban slums - are already suffering from excessive lead from eating chips of lead-based paint; one of the nation's major causes of mental retardation - and even death. PROVO A s t 1t d . \' of rec e n t fores l fires in (It ah and California ; show that only two /)er cent - were purposely set; as compared with some twenty per cent - caused by people using the forests for recreational purposes. The greatest n,,mber - nearly half - by people working in the forests loggers - road-builders - construction uo rkers and truck and tractor operators; all people who really should know better. Professor John Christiansen of Brigham Young University; suggests much more fire safety training. VIE1"NA At .4ustria 's former impe-rial palace in Vienna - ~ overlooking tire beautiful Blue Danube - tire start of. sixth A round SALT talks today[in an atmosphere - reportedly mark,d by "an unprecedented mood of optimism." Gerard Smith, for the U.S. saying a new agireement limiting anti-ballistic mi,siles - may be ready by tlte tim• President Nixon goes to Moscow; or - "hopefully sooner." Russia's Vladimir Semenov - similarly saying tlte-re is "a real po,sibility for reaching a t,ositive result." SALISBURY Britain's Fo1'eig11 Minister - Sir Alec Douglas- Home a vis it or today a t Sal is b" r y i ·: breakaway Rhodes i a ; there meeting with Rhodesian Premier Jan Smith. His goal to c re a t e "c on di t i o ,is - rt n de r w Iii c h R h odes i a w il l be a ccef)ted back into the international community." Ian Smith - -- says there are still some "knotty problems" to sol vc. 11oscow Moscow - a meeti,sg of delegates from 11ine Communist coM,atriea. Tltese including - bestdes Russia - Bulgaria, BNngary, East Germany, Cubo, Mongolia, Poland, Romania i•l•""• 1 tio,aal st,ace communications orga,si•atio,.; also, h111ili•g "all stales of tit• 111orld" - even ,so,t-Commu,aist co,,,alries - to join in. A,ad tlley call their new group - simply "lnter-St,utnik." 7 ANTRIM This next - from : A11trim Norlher11 Ireland ; ,o It ere a Poli c e raid o II a Io cal farm - t ll r ,zed up a s u r pr is in g #,arvest. The police seizing forty-se v en shotguns, rifles , s11bmachine guns and revolvers - along tcJith ten thousand rounds of ant , nunition and a large quantity of plastic explosives. According to a police spokesman - "tlae biggest haul so Jar." MADRID From lite Spa11isl, Finance Ministry in Madrid - an order today drastically cutting income taxes for artists, ~ professional sportsmen and btillfighters. A spokesman noting .,,< - - - - that the careers of artists and sportsmen - are usually considerably shorter than those of other taxpayers; in the --~-- case of br,llfighters LONDONDERRY FOLLOH ANTRIM M ea n w h, i I e , a I Lo 11 cl on de r r .v - Io u e-, con q u e 1· s all. Pretty, you,zg Marta Doherty - whosn head was shaved last week by a so-called "Women's Revenge Group" - getting married today to her young British soldier, Private John Larter. The ceremony and a later reception - taking place i,rside heavily-guarded Ebrington Barracks overlooking the River Foyle. Not exactly as planned, of course. But a good time was had by all - we are told,· and the bride - wearing a new wig - looked 1'dsllltJBI:, radiant. -as nil 6•idcs rlrt"- A happy ending!-~ joyful beginning. ,,..,